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Ireland, Civil Registration, 1845-1913

Ireland, Civil Registration, 1845-1913 · General Register Office (Ireland) · 1845–1913 · FamilySearch

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Jurisdiction
Ireland
Registering authority
General Register Office (Ireland)
Record type
mixed
Years covered
1845–1913
Provider
FamilySearch
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FamilySearch's index to the Irish civil registers. An index only — names, dates, registration district and parents, not the register image. Its 'birth' date field is not always the date of birth: late registration was common and the indexed date can be the date of registration, which is why a baptism can appear to precede it. Individual records are addressed as https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:<ark>. Read signed in, in a browser. The register images themselves are at irishgenealogy.ie (source 1318).

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Ireland, Civil Registration, 1845-1913 Skibbereen and Caheragh, County Cork, March 1873 Secondary

Ireland, Civil Registration, 1845-1913 · General Register Office (Ireland) · 1845–1913 · FamilySearch

For Michael Sullivan & Julia Collins

Patrick Sullivan | Civil | Birth Registration Skibbereen | Birth 2 March 1873 || John Sullivan | Catholic Parish Registers | Baptism 4 March 1873 | Caheragh

Two FamilySearch rows, both indexed to Michael Sullivan and Julia Collins, quoted field by field and separated by ||. CITED ON THE FAMILY AND NOT ON A PERSON, DELIBERATELY: two records two days apart cannot be told apart from an index. They may be one child whom the registrar entered as Patrick and the priest baptised John — common enough in west Cork — or twins, or the civil entry may be a second Patrick after the 1871 child died. Creating a person from either reading would risk either a duplicate or an invented name, so the family has a March 1873 child recorded here and no person row until the Caheragh register on registers.nli.ie is read.